Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Recognize we all face obstacles and require support from time to time. Example: Sam came home from Afghanistan with PTSD that threatened his family, his job, and even his life. But that changed when he met Molly, a service dog your support helped train. She is not a cancer patient first.)

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Achieve

OCTOBER 6, 2023

billion social media users around the world, there’s a wealth of potential supporters just waiting at your fingertips—all it takes is a coordinated approach and a computer to engage them. Your nonprofit’s supporters may have a limited capacity to contribute or prefer to get involved in different ways. After all, with 4.9

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

As a group or as an individual, CARE Packages can help send girls in Afghanistan to school for a year, or help expectant mothers in Peru safely deliver. It’s fun and you’ll be bringing hope to girls and women around the world. [ Send a CARE Package ].

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Because Women for Women International has an engaged and vocal online supporter base, I am lucky that my time investment usually pays off. Did you experience resistance from higher ups in the organization initially utilizing about social media, or were they supportive? Anything else?

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

From hosting Facebook fundraisers to automating your efforts, here are the strategies we’ll cover: Host quick, time-bound challenges to rally supporters. Create online communities to connect supporters near and far. Host quick, time-bound challenges to rally supporters. Invite supporters to join the Challenge.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 22, 2020

For one, it’s often largely supporter-initiated! Educate supporters about the basics of Facebook fundraising. Educate supporters about the basics of Facebook fundraising. Unlike other online fundraising efforts, Facebook fundraising is largely supporter-led. Consider pivoting your year-end events to Facebook.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2017

Refugee Response is an online technology informational resource that provides technology-related support for NGOs that serve refugees. That displacement has happened mostly as a result of the wars in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Microsoft has a special commitment to support those who are responding to the humanitarian refugee crises.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

This year, TMWL is raising funds that will support the work of 4 passionate women who truly believe that everyone has something to give: “ Mama Lucy &# Kamptoni sold chickens in her Tanzanian village & turned her income into a primary school that now serves over 400 children.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 1, 2013

You can support NTEN in Giving Tuesday and join Beth Kanter for a live discussion of collective philanthropy - get the details here. Giving Tuesday is a movement to create a national day of giving to kick off the giving season added to the calendar on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2011

This year’s campaign hopes to raise $65,000 to invest in Mama Lucy’s secondary school in Tanzania, Renu & Maggie’s schools in Kathmandu & Surkhet, Nepal, and Suraya’s women’s shelter in Afghanistan. Nonprofit tech and social change bloggers are supporting the campaign with these inspiring posts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 30, 2009

There were people already doing cool stuff, like InSTEDD and some great work around mashups of humanitarian data in Afghanistan, as well as folks discussing lauching cool new social enterprises (but we can't talk about them yet). I did a session on technology that does social good but doesn't make money, and got a dynamic group to show up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The intent is to create an annual national day of giving on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving or this year on November 27, 2012. The campaign will encourage philanthropic activities that support nonprofit organizations. And that’s why I’m supporting Giving Tuesday. What about you?

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

From hosting Facebook fundraisers to automating your efforts, here are the strategies we’ll cover: Host quick, time-bound challenges to rally supporters. Create online communities to connect supporters near and far. Host quick, time-bound challenges to rally supporters. Invite supporters to join the Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

He shared incredible stories from over two decades of providing rehabilitation for disabled people in Afghanistan. In it, tell the story of a specific instance in which you supported a nonprofit organization in a way that was meaningful to you. Your essay must focus on one specific nonprofit organization.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

The Rucksack" -- a cutting-edge project that I led recently for the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) -- is an especially powerful example of an organization using technology in a strategic and transformative way. It describes the project from more of a strategic perspective than a technical one.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2014

I supported a vegan food truck, a book about metal dudes and their cats, a rescued chihuahua's hip surgery, and an iPhone case with a built-in taser. When a campaign isn't what it appears, it not only hurts the individual supporters and donors involved, but also other crowdfunders. Show a Clear Connection. Report Back.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 1, 2009

Women for Women International to support women survivors of war. Sierra Club to support wilderness areas like the Giant Sequoia National Monument , Grand Canyon National Park , Everglades National Park and the Arctic National Refuge. If you have trouble opening the donate link in Firefox, like I did, try it in another web browser.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

It develops and supports the profession of social entrepreneurship by acting as a venture capital firm for visionary change-makers around the world. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America , founded in June 2004, is the nation's first and largest group dedicated to the Troops and Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

We are also funding very special after school art classes in Afghanistan through our partnership with Trust In Education. If you want to support Afghan women and girls, make a Traveling Postcard and send it to us. We know that creativity and freedom of expression go a long way in educating children to be tolerant and open minded.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

I looked at a few popular crowdfunding sites and dissected their cost plans, nonprofit support, and special features. Project creators offer rewards and incentives for donations to thank backers for their support. They also offer a guide for cause-based campaigns as well as customer support on the phone or online.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 27, 2017

SAWA-Australia is a nonprofit organization aimed at providing Afghanistan women with education and health services. Text messaging can help nonprofits meet their fundraising goals and raise awareness of the causes they support. Text-to-Give Case Studies. Use these tips to create an effective SMS campaign for your organization!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

I have been providing strategic support to charitable organizations about how to use the internet and technology to engage, educate, and ultimately mobilize audiences – and especially raise money online – for almost a decade. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association. The United Way. Mercy Corps. American Heart Association.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

I define AP as philanthropy that is primarily concerned with getting donors and supporters to pay attention to a certain cause. In his books, he tells the story of founding his nonprofit and recounts tales of the struggles they faced while fulfilling their mission of providing education to girls in remote areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2009

Also working with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America to help get them the respect and services they deserve, working on reform of the VA. That's by no means as exhaustive list, but a big deal for me to support people who serve. I also want to mention Consumer Reports. Q: Are there things that techies can specifically do better?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

Brodsky documents the inside story of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). According to their site, "RAWA is the oldest political/social organization of Afghan women struggling for peace, freedom, democracy and women's rights in fundamentalism-blighted Afghanistan since 1977." women book nonprofit

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

I looked at a few popular crowdfunding sites and dissected their cost plans, nonprofit support, and special features. Project creators offer rewards and incentives for donations to thank backers for their support. They also offer a guide for cause-based campaigns as well as customer support on the phone or online.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 14, 2006

They created the Small Planet Fund to support the people and organizations that they met on their trip. We got to talking, and she told me about a book she wrote about the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan , an underground organization working for women's rights in Afghanistan. It was Anne Brodsky.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Remote work is creating more widespread workforces, and employees want to support new places. That allows individual donors to save time while combing records to find organizations to support. Learn more about how GlobalGiving Atlas can support your global nonprofit data needs. Help your users recommend new nonprofit partners.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

The takeover by the Taliban in Afghanistan earlier this year instantly sent the future of girls and women in that country into chaos. In addition, female athletes globally have faced abuse and harassment from the very people who are charged with coaching and supporting them to succeed. Credit: GOLEES. About the Author.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Through the Open Collective Foundation , we are supporting the solidarity economy , with over 100 mutual aid projects and over 300 hosted groups, and through Open Source Collective we host nearly 3,000 open source technology communities. Can radical philanthropy support building tools for the movement?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

India is next to Pakistan, which is right next to Afghanistan, and the US had just gone to war in Afghanistan. We had a walking meditation down Market Street, and a meditation outside the Chinese Consulate to protest their support of the Burmese junta. Be brave, and find people who are like-minded to support you in that process.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

A disproportionate amount of women veterans are women of color, and many of them have just recently returned from Iraq or Afghanistan and are looking to get involved with the peace moment, and with their own political development, but also with their own healing, and what it means to heal after going through the incredible trauma of war.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

When the Afghanistan crisis reared its ugly head again this year, a group of veterans, active-duty service members, former government officials, civil servants, and nonprofit organizations came together to work online to help individuals and families evacuate the country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

How the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America is using the web to bring back together their band of brothers and sisters. Second, the relationship between weak and strong ties is one of complementarity and support, not one of opposition. The examples are there, too. The Obama campaign, for one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2007

" There are links to several charities that provide support and assistance to children in developing countries. Another contributor to the site is Natalia who has shared some compelling photos of children beggars in from Afghanistan. What can we do?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And here’s Anthony, he was in one of my wounded veteran programs that these young men and women who’ve lost their legs and arms in Iraq and Afghanistan. And he had been a big supporter of my Wounded Veteran Program. I really, really want to support you. They’re supportive. What do you want to do?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi As a Program Associate for the Benetech Human Rights Program (HRP), I train and support human rights advocates who use Benetech’s free and open source Martus program to securely document human rights violations. The current conflict in Afghanistan has been ongoing since 2001.

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